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Interesting story. Doctors have a much higher fear of death than the "average person". Maybe we know too much. Or too little.

Maybe we go into medicine to figure out what death means. Kind of like how the kookiest docs go into psychiatry. I've never met a psychiatrist who didn't have mental illness of some kind.

nteresting story. Doctors have a much higher fear of death than the "average person". Maybe we know too much. Or too little.

Where'd you get that "fact"? Maybe you know to much or to little. ??????

Maybe we go into medicine to figure out what death means. Kind of like how the kookiest docs go into psychiatry. I've never met a psychiatrist who didn't have mental illness of some kind.

Well that covers most of the clichés. most doctors in my group got into medicine because they wanted to help sick people, enjoy an interesting life filled with intellectual stimulation that pays well, status, family pressure but "fear" or death quest isn't even on the radar. I found the craziest doctors are in pain management, industrial medicine, workers comp doctors and those working on federal institutions (prison, Indian reservation, substance abuse clinics).

I think this article indicates the opposite: doctors have a much lower fear of death as they deal with it so often.....

If their fear was greater, they would do everything to prolong their lives like most - but they don’t......

But actually, almost all who don’t know what their relationship with God is fear death......